December 2008
WatchTeddy Saw
WatchJob Interview
“Isn’t Omnicorp the company from Robocop?”
“Have you seen Robocop?”
“Yeah.”
“I never thought about that.”
“That I would see it, or…”
“Guess what? We have time machines. And they’re better than you’d believe by...”
– Avery Edison, “Brant Charles’s Commencement Speech to MIT”
What Internet memes will go mainstream in 2009?
The author of XKCD asked this in the alt text to this comic. In 2007 it was LOLcats and Rickrolling, both of which peaked this year. 2008 popularized FAIL and the mockery of Scientology.
My money’s on “Yo Dawg” thanks to its pop culture appeal and the richness of possible variations. (For noobs: The “Yo Dawg” parodies of Xzibit’s show “Pimp My...
YO DAWG WE HERD U LIEK TUMBLR →
“Comedian Dane Cook’s business-manager brother has been arrested and charged with...”
– Boston Herald
NATIONAL HERO
2008: The Year the Geeks Took Over →
(via kayfabe:thelosspeaks:ohryan)
Artificial Virginity Hymen →
“Insert this artificial hymen into your vagina carefully. It will expand a little and make you feel tight. When your lover penetrate, it will ooze out a liquid that look like blood not too much but just the right amount.” $19.20 with shipping, made in Japan.
All right, who’s gonna try this?
“It reminded me that there are people out there who view the world through...”
– J.B. Rabin
“She probably noted that I had starred quite a few photos and assumed that I was...”
– J.B. Rabin
“Although there’s no way to prove this, it seemed like the tech/media...”
– Fimoculous.com: 30 Most Notable Blogs of 2008
“where’s the plot?!?! nothing happens!!!! you better have a huge stack of...”
– Viewer comment for Philip Glass’s epic artwork Koyaanisqatsi
Your blog post about Twitter is bad and you should...
A writer should never say, “Here’s something you don’t know about and shouldn’t care about.” So only read this if you read blogs like TechCrunch, or you work for a startup, or you want to feel very bad about some blogging/social media/marketing job you had to take even though in your heart you know it hurts the world. These are some thoughts I worked out since...
“44. Mexican scientists discovered a way to make diamonds from the carbon and...”
– In 50 Things We Know Now (We Didn’t Know This Time Last Year): 2008 Edition, the Tampa Bay Tribune really buries the lead.
“Dear Fox,
Eat all the dicks.
Love,
-DOB
PS”
– Daniel O’Brien is very mad at Fox for screwing Warner Brothers over Watchmen
Just so you know, the Salvation Army is against... →
"Who in their right mind lives here? (Zoom out.)" →
(via Reddit. More about this town here.)
Inventor's 2020 vision: to help 1bn of the world's... →
“Silver has devised a pair of glasses which rely on the principle that the fatter a lens the more powerful it becomes. Inside the device’s tough plastic lenses are two clear circular sacs filled with fluid, each of which is connected to a small syringe attached to either arm of the spectacles.
The wearer adjusts a dial on the syringe to add or reduce amount of fluid in the membrane,...
“It is possible that Parisians aren’t the only ones capable of leading...”
– WHY THEY HATE THE ‘50S - New York Post
Compared to what indeed.
alexbalk:
Kyle Smith of the Post plays the paper’s idea of cretinous rightwing jackass as intellectual every weekend, but in today’s column he really outdoes himself.
Oh, no. Really? Again? Ten minutes into “Revolutionary Road,” director Sam Mendes delivers his nightmare vision of starched gray men suited up for corporate life sentences as they parade in suffering slo-mo through a sepulchral...
YTMND - Tubular Nets →
So I’ve been browsing old YTMNDs and I’m convinced that by judging someone’s smile during this song, you can calculate just how much time they’ve spent online. (Especially if you can ID the voice saying “Spyware virus.”)
“Oh my god his hat flew off.”
– YTMND - look at that hat…
“The U.S. Powerball lottery drawing of the 30 March 2005 game produced an...”
– Fortune cookie - Wikipedia
Twitter plays the Anal Car Game →
Fuck you, Fortune Cookie In Bed Game.
“But absolutely nobody worth mentioning says “I’m a filmmaker” and then prints...”
– Mightygodking.com: On Editorialization And The Lack Thereof
Whoa, lucky holy me.
Easter fell on April 12, my birthday, in 1936.
It didn’t fall on that day again until 1998, when I turned 14.
This April 12 is my second Easter birthday. 2020, when I turn 36, will be my third.
And then Easter doesn’t occur on April 12 until 2093.
I’ve got two chances to throw a sacrilegious “Son of God” birthday party, so I’m gonna make them count.
WatchBlue Christmas
Bacon is not a meme.